By Ray Pride Pride@moviecitynews.com
Going Aristocratic: Penn Jillette, getting started
THINKFilm’s releasing Paul Provenza and Penn Jillette‘s The Aristocrats on July 29, and they’ve sent a letter from Jillette to journalists, who offers a few first notes. “A higher percentage of people who’ve seen our movie liked it than the percentage of people who liked Lord of the Rings. One reason is that Lord of the Rings sucks and our movie is good… Think of the most disgusting images you can. Think of the worst scatological and nonconsensual sex you can. Imagine children. Imagine young children. Imagine children that are related to each other. Children who are related to you. Imagine animals. Young endangered animals who are related to each other… Nope, you’re not even close. The movie has over 100 professionals. They are much more disgusting than you can ever be, that’s because they’re professionals… The taboo language is not even the main thrust; the main thrust is a movie with no nudity, no violence and no conflict… It’s very political because it’s not political at all… Michael Moore and Mel Gibson are the same person, except for a few sit-ups. Moore thought his cheesy political blooper reel was going to tell people how to vote. Mel thought that his little gay SM movie about his imaginary friend was going to help him get to heaven. George W. Bush is president and there’s still no god. You failed boys. Someone should have told Mike that the bad guys are smarter than him and someone should have told Mel that the 3 Stooges were Jewish. Both those filthy rich losers wanted everyone to see their movies. Moore wanted the Republicans to be shocked by how bad they were and see the light shining out of his fat ass. Mel went for straight off the rack proselytizing. They both just got even richer.” Before attaching Frank Rich’s encomium from the NY Times, Jillette seems to shrug, “I’m already richer than I should be… I want to make people laugh and love life and love watching all my friends making each other laugh.” [The link above is from a South Park version of the joke, and it is very, very raw.]